History Series / Sliders

* ''Series/StargateSG1''. We start out doin' some old-fashioned asymmetric interstellar warfare. We've even got some devices which are controlled directly from the brain. Later on, though, once we get to the ascended Ancients, everything's out the window. Especially with the Ori, who gain their power directly from the belief of their followers... somehow.

* ShaggyDogStory: Oh boy.

* AmbiguousEnding: [[spoiler: in the final episode 3 out of 4 surviving sliders are left stranded in a civilized, prosperous world where they are rich and famous celebrities whilst Rembrandt injects himself with an anti-Kromag virus and slides back to his home Earth, knowing he will free his world but having been warned by an infallible psychic that he will die as a result. The fate of all the characters is therefore left unresolved.]]

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Arturo in "The Exodus, Part 2" (a very debatable one given the circumstances), Wade in "Requiem". In the final episode Rembrandt infects himself with a Kromag killing virus and slides back to his original Earth, knowing it will free his world even if it costs him his life and having been warned by an infallible psychic that he will inevitably die if he slides again]]

It began as an AdventureSeries revolving around AlternateHistory scenarios (''"What if the US lost World War II? What if dinosaurs didn't go extinct? What if you were born the opposite sex?"'', etc), but ExecutiveMeddling eventually cost the show its creative force, Tracy Torme, which led to the less-inspired episodes that borrowed heavily from popular movies. The show eventually started a MythArc revolving around the Kromaggs.

* MsFanService: Maggie Becket (played by Kari Wurher) is often exploited in this regard, initially a tough nut military officer her wardrobe got steadily sexier and she would find herself tied up in her revealing underwear, so much so that some fans derisively referred to her as "boobs on patrol".

** According to Tracy Torme, this was what happened to [[spoiler:Arturo]]. In "[[Recap/SlidersS02E08PostTraumaticSlideSyndrome Post Traumatic Slide Syndrome]]", on a world almost exactly like Earth Prime, [[spoiler:Arturo]] and his less-ethical double have a fight as the wormhole opens and only one makes it through. Fans debated heavily over which [[spoiler:Arturo]] slid, until Torme finally confirmed in 2009 that [[spoiler:it was the alternate Arturo who managed to slide out]]. This means the real [[spoiler:Arturo]] is trapped on a world not his own and separated from his friends [[spoiler:but likely still alive, unlike the alternate one who ended up [[TakingTheBullet taking a bullet for Quinn]]]].

* SherlockHomage: "Murder Most Foul" sees Arturo brainwashed into thinking he is a Holmesian expy named Reginald Doyle, on the hunt for a Victorian serial killer named "[[UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper Jolly Jack]]". Like Holmes, "Doyle" uses keen deductive reasoning, has a [[Main/TheWatson Watson-like]] sidekick named Marple, who he believes Quinn to be, and even wears the classic deerstalker cap/inverness cape ensemble.

* SherlockHomage: "Murder Most Foul" sees Arturo brainwashed into thinking he is a Holmesian expy named Reginald Doyle, on the hunt for a Victorian serial killer named "[[UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper Jolly Jack]]". Like Holmes, "Doyle" uses deductive reasoning and advanced (for the time) scientific methods, has a [[Main/TheWatson Watson-like]] sidekick named Marple, who he believes Quinn to be, and even wears the classic deerstalker cap/inverness cape ensemble.

* {{Fanservice}}: Increased significantly by Season 3, and it actually went both ways. Not just with Wade and eventually Maggie for the male viewers as documented in {{HotterandSexier}} below, but Quinn also got it well, with just as many instances of him either shirtless or in various stages of undress as the previous two seasons combined."Electric Twister Acid Test" and "Dead Man Sliding" being particular examples.